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1 the Valley Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00688-1 - The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium Peter Thonemann Excerpt More information 1 The valley Cratylus used to criticise Heraclitus for saying that it was impossible to step into the same river twice. He thought that it was impossible to step into the same river once.1 The fall of Tralles, ad 1284 In the spring of the year ad 1280, the young future emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus led an army south from Constantinople into Asia Minor. Twenty years of Palaeologan rule had not been kind to the old Byzantine heartlands. After the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins in 1261, the emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus had kept his attention firmly trained on the European west. The Anatolian borderlands, the fertile coastal valleys of the Hermos, Cayster and Maeander, had largely been abandoned to their fate at the hands of the nascent Turkish warrior beyliks.Onlyattheveryend of his life, between 1280 and 1282, did Michael make any concerted attempt to restore Byzantine authority in western Asia Minor, and by then, as would rapidly become apparent, it was far too late.2 Arriving in the valley of the river Maeander, and travelling eastwards along the north bank of the river, Andronicus passed the ruins of the ancient city of Tralles. Struck by the charms of the place, and the natural defensibility of the plateau on which the city stood, Andronicus decided to restore the ruined town as a place of refuge for the local Greek rural population (Fig. 1.1). The new city was to carry his own name: Andronicopolis or Palaeologopolis.3 Work proceeded at speed, and the city was soon ringed with strong fortifications. Worn down by the constant assaults of the Turks, and all too ready to believe that the arrival of the young emperor-in-waiting marked a new dawn for the embattled Greeks of Asia Minor, as many as 36,000 men, women and children came to settle in the new city. The hopes 1 Aristotle, Met. 1010a12–15. 2 Laiou 1972: 21–6; see also Foss 1979b: 141–4; Ragia 2005: 221–4. 3 Restoration and fall of Tralles: Pachymeres 6.20–1 (ed. Failler 1984–2000: II 591–9); Gregoras 5.5.8–9 (ed. Schopen 1829–30: i 142–4). Chronology: Failler 1984. 1 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00688-1 - The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium Peter Thonemann Excerpt More information 2 The valley Figure 1.1 The gorge of the Tabakhane Deresi (the ancient river Eudon), looking north towards the plateau of Tralles-Andronicopolis, at top right of the new settlers were raised still higher by the discovery of a marble stele buried in the ruins of the ancient town, discovered by Andronicus’ workmen, on which was inscribed an ancient oracle in hexameter verse.4 The beauty of this city of Tralles shall be dimmed in time, And in the last days, those few that remain Shall live in fear of a leaderless barbarian tribe; But the city will never fall.5 4 I.Tralleis 2. The oracle survives in four versions: (1) as quoted by Gregoras 5.5.9 (ed. Schopen 1829–30: i 143); (2) as inserted in a marginal note in a single manuscript of Pachymeres (ed. Failler 1984–2000: ii 593, app.crit.); (3) a copy in a Hamburg manuscript containing inscriptions copied by Cyriac of Ancona (Wegehaupt and Brinkmann 1903); (4) a fragmentary copy in a Laurentine manuscript (Lampros 1904: 266–7, 406–8). 5 The themes are common in other thirteenth-century inscriptions recording fortification works. For the first two lines of the Tralles oracle, compare e.g. the building inscription of David Comnenus at Heraclea Pontica (1206/7): sunege©rei katablhqe±san cr»[n] tn Pontohrakle©an ntcnwv Âlhn (I.Heraclea 38; TIB Paphlagonien, s.v. Herakleia), or the building inscription of John Vatatzes at Smyrna (1222/3): tnde p»lin proiqen gaklutn per oÓsan, ktl.(I.Smyrna 854). See further Trombley 1998: 118–33. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00688-1 - The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium Peter Thonemann Excerpt More information The fall of Tralles, ad 1284 3 Figure 1.2 The Maeander river near Tralles, in flood A nobleman, whose name is Victory, shall restore her. He shall live for seventy-two years in splendour, And at the age of twenty-one, he will glorify this city of Attalus.6 To him, the cities of the west will bow their heads, And the proud, like children, shall bend their knee to him. This talismanic invocation of the city’s ancient past was, says the historian George Pachymeres, ‘no more than a dream’.7 The new inhabitants of Tralles failed to build effective cisterns, and there was no underground water which 6 At this point, copies (2) and (3) add an extra clause ‘and the neighbouring fortress (polichnion) of Heraclius’. The identification of the polichnion of Heraclius is uncertain. The nearby city of Nysa was also captured by the Turks between 1280 and 1284 (Pachymeres 6.21, ed. Failler 1984–2000: II 599), but we have no evidence either that it was restored by Andronicus, or that it had any connection with Heraclius. A more plausible candidate is Magnesia on the Maeander, whose Byzantine circuit wall is probably to be attributed to Heraclius (Foss 1977:483).Building inscriptions show that Heraclius repaired the walls of Smyrna at an unknown date after ad 629 (I.Smyrna 851, 851A); similar building inscriptions could still have been visible at Magnesia in the thirteenth century. 7 For the fortuitous rediscovery of prophetic inscriptions, compare (1) a sarcophagus discovered at the land-walls of Constantinople in 781, predicting the resurrection of Christ during the reign of Constantine VI and Irene: Theophanes (ed. de Boor 1883–5) 455, with Reinach 1900 and (independently) Mango 1963; (2) a Delphic oracle of the early fifth century bc, discovered at the Isthmus between 1423 and 1436, predicting the destruction of Manuel II Palaeologus’ Hexamilion by the Turks and urging its reconstruction: Bodnar 1960. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00688-1 - The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium Peter Thonemann Excerpt More information 4 The valley they could tap for wells. The cause of this, in Pachymeres’ view, was the proximity of the Maeander river. In the humid and sweltering plain of the Maeander, the river was constantly spreading its waters through the porous top-soil. Since this surface moisture rapidly evaporated in the heat of the sun, the water was prevented from sinking deep into the earth to form under- ground reservoirs. At any rate, in the height of summer the new city was entirely dependent on access to the Maeander for water. Four years later, in 1284, the city was besieged by a huge Turkish force under the emir Mentes¸e. Driven to desperation by the lack of water, the inhabitants were reduced to drinking the blood of their own horses. The end, when it came, was brutal and swift. And so it was that the city of Tralles was emptied of its inhabitants. Winter in the land of Rumˆ Indik˙ Rum’aˆ kıs¸laduk We wintered in the land of Rumˆ C¸okhayruseris¨ ¸leduk¨ Both well and ill we laboured there Us¸baharˆ oldı giru¨ Then came the Spring, and to our lands Goc¨ ¸duk¨ elhamdˆ u¨ lillahˆ We turned again, praise be to God. (Yunus Emre, ad c. 1300)8 The refoundation of Tralles in ad 1280 was the last serious attempt by the Byzantine imperial state to reassert its authority over the middle and lower Maeander valley (the region extending from Laodicea, near modern Denizli, to the delta plain south-west of modern Soke).¨ 9 Since the mid-1070s, the Greek inhabitants of the lowland Aegean valleys had become accustomed to the annual influx of ever-increasing numbers of transhumant Turkmen pas- toralists, who – like the Sufi poet Yunus Emre, at the turn of the fourteenth century – ‘wintered in the land of the Romans (Rum)’,ˆ before returning in the spring to their summer pastures in the Phrygian and Pisidian highlands, on the fringe of the Anatolian plateau.10 The status of the Maeander valley as a border marchland (Gk akrai,Tkuc¸) between Greek and Turkish zones of settlement, won and lost season by season with the annual east–west migrations of the Turkmen borderers, had received institutional recogni- tion from the Byzantine state some time in the late twelfth century ad,when 8 De Planhol 1968: 224; Bryer 1993: 101. 9 For the campaign of Alexios Philanthropenos in the Maeander delta region in ad 1294/5, see below, Chapter 7, pp. 277–8. 10 On the seasonal nature of the Turkish presence in the Aegean lowlands in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, see Hendy 1985: 114–17, 129–30 (correcting Vryonis 1971: 184–94; Vryonis 1975). © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00688-1 - The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium Peter Thonemann Excerpt More information Winter in the land of Rumˆ 5 a separate administrative district (thema) of ‘Maeander’ was carved out of the old thema of Thrakesion (the successor of the late Roman province of Asia).11 The Maeander thema is first attested in 1198, in the chrysobull of Alexius III Angelus granting the Venetians commercial rights through- out the Byzantine empire; its original capital was apparently at Laodicea, if we may judge from the partitio Romaniae of 1204, which records a province of ‘Laodicea and Maeander’.12 With the cession of Laodicea and Chonae to the rebel Manuel Maurozomes in 1205, the capital of the Maeander thema shifted downstream to Antioch on the Maeander.13 The Maeander thema probably continued to exist as a Byzantine military circumscription until the 1250s or early 1260s, under the overall authority of the doux of Thrakesion.14 To the best of my knowledge, this is the only period in history in which a state has chosen to demarcate the Maeander river valley as an administrative unit in its own right.
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